This month, BB hosts the second paper in the Important Bird Areas series to cover a UK Overseas Territory. Henderson, one of the Pitcairn Islands, is home to the endangered Henderson Petrel and many of the world’s gadfly petrels. Together with its endemic plants, snails and invertebrates, not to mention its turtle population, it must surely be as important as Britain & Ireland in terms of global biodiversity. Yet conservation bodies are desperately trying to raise funds to eradicate the Polynesian Rats that could seriously affect much of the island’s unique wildlife, and potentially cause species extinctions…
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